May 1, 2023
By Richard Brouillette, LCSW, author of Your Coping Skills Aren’t Working If you’re struggling with intrusive disturbing images coming into your head, either from a phobia, or anxiety, or post-traumatic… READ MORE
By Brian L. Thompson, PhD, coauthor of ACT-Informed Exposure for Anxiety Safety behaviors are behaviors people engage in to prevent or minimize either something bad happening or to manage their… READ MORE
April 25, 2023
By Chad LeJeune, PhD As therapists, most of us have been there at one time or another. You’re in the middle of a session with a client and are struck… READ MORE
April 11, 2023
By Ashley Vigil-Otero, PsyD Although there are many helpful interventions to improve parental effectiveness, sometimes they don’t always generalize outside of therapy. One problem is that even when clients understand parent… READ MORE
March 14, 2023
By Amy C. Balentine, PhD Children and teens are not always ready to tackle topics with big emotions. This may show up in therapy sessions in the form of distractions,… READ MORE
January 31, 2023
By David A. Clark, PhD Often, individuals express great reluctance with therapy. Two beliefs, in particular, are often found in those who are antagonistic to psychotherapy. Unless addressed early in… READ MORE
January 17, 2023
By Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD Adult children of emotionally immature parents (ACEIPs) have learned to accommodate authority figures by suppressing their own emotional truth. Empathically sensitive, they use amiability to… READ MORE
December 27, 2022
By Tamara McClintock Greenberg, PsyD Angry clients are common for those of us who see people with trauma histories. Although anger is included in the criteria of post-traumatic stress disorder… READ MORE
July 26, 2022
By Kirby Reutter, PhD We’ve all had the high-maintenance client that is constantly in crisis, hijacks the session, and even demands time outside of the session. These clients routinely have what I… READ MORE
Healing the Wounds that Fuel the Use of Substances
December 11, 2024
